I enjoy making fussy & fancy cards but sometimes it's nice to do something a bit different so it's a super simple design from me today.

I used foam pads under the central circle and babygro but for the main white panel I added 2 extra squares of card with apertures underneath as it gives a neater and flatter finish than ton of foam pads!

Sunday, 24 April 2016

I had a totally fabulous Friday starting with coffee and cake with lovely Debs and Sue and then sampling rather a lot of tasty beers at the Gloucester beer festival and finishing with a scrummy Nepalese meal :-)

Now I am excited for my holibobs in just 1 more sleep and I'm almost all packed!

So, let me share a little excitement with you in the form of a sneak peek of the forthcoming release from LOTV.
This time we have some fantastic images for the men in your life, although I bet the ladies might like these too!

My sneak peek today is a wonderful garden shed design and I've used one of the new LOTV sentiments...what a perfect combo!

The images are quite detailed so will look good whatever level of colouring skills you have; I really enjoyed adding texture to the wood, foliage and stone wall :-)

Thursday, 21 April 2016

It feels like a long time coming and has been a lot of work but I have finished my prescribing course :-)
I won't find out if I passed the practical exam and case presentation for a few weeks but for now I am just relieved that I made it to the end!

So now it's....

2 sleeps until coffee and cake date with my lovely friends Sue and Debs followed by beer festival

5 sleeps until holibobs

12 sleeps until my birthday

In the meantime we have a new challenge for you at As You Like It and our theme is...

Tuesday, 19 April 2016

If you have been following my countdowns you will know that today is the day I head to Bath to undertake my practical exam for the prescribing course.

Then I have a case presentation to give on Wednesday but I'm not worried about that as its only 10 minutes and I'm quite relaxed about giving presentations.

I'll be fine as long as don't drink a big cup of coffee immediately beforehand as I talk quite fast even without the added caffeine...yes, I have made that mistake before - lol!

Onto the crafting and today I have a Paper Nest Dolls card to share, using a paper pad that I have had for a while and somehow haven't used before.

I thought I would use it for wedding cards but it seemed to suit this image really well and even had the perfect sentiment topper for me to use :-)

I think I should treat myself to a cupcake this size after I finish my exams!

Yummy!

I felt that this card needed some bunting to complete the celebratory feel so I made my own using co-ordinating paper from the paper pad.
I cut the little flags by hand, folded the top of each flag over a length of twine and glued them down. I attached it to the card with foam pads on the back of the flags and trimmed the ends of the twine and covered them with flowers.
I do love bunting; it makes me smile :-)

Sunday, 17 April 2016

I know you have all been waiting with baited breath for an update so I won't disappoint...

2 sleeps until the final exams for my prescribing course - double eek!

5 sleeps until beer festival

5 sleeps until my next coffee and cake date with my lovely friends Sue and Debs (date moved so now I get to have cake and a little natter followed by beer festival all on the same day!)

8 sleeps until holibobs

15 sleeps until my birthday

I hope you have all had some sunshine over the weekend; I have certainly been enjoying it, especially with a fab trip to Bourton-on-the-Water today for lunch with some family :-)

It was perfect weather for driving in the new car with the roof down and my new sunglasses :-)

Ok, ok, crafting yes...I do have a card to share!

I have been playing with another of the awesome new images from LOTV and after making a few cards with Jasmine, I thought it was Oliver's turn!

I wanted a softer look to the image to match the papers so I stamped the image with dark grey ink and used my Inktense pencils.
I was pretty happy with how it turned out, given I'm still a beginner with these pencils.

Monday, 11 April 2016

10 sleeps until my next coffee and cake date with my lovely friends Sue and Debs

11 sleeps until beer festival

14 sleeps until holibobs

21 sleeps until my birthday

My countdown list seems to have grown a little bit and all of it apart from the first one is terribly exciting :-)
I promise I won't share that huge long list on every blog post - lol!

Back to the crafting, and today I have another of the gorgeous new Jasmine images from LOTV to share with you.

This card is to support the LOTV April card challenge which is running on facebook, where we want to see your creations using any 3 or more colours as inspired by the month of April, so that's Aqua, Pink, Red, Ivory and Lilac.

There are 5 absolutely amazing prizes on offer from LOTV plus a fabulous £10 gift voucher prize from The Ribbon Girl so plenty of incentive to join in with us!

Apart from red, these are some of my fave colours and I have gone for aqua, pink and ivory on my card.

I can't tell you how much I love this fab image and I know she's really aimed at the teenage girl market but honestly, this could just as easily be me!

I have used one of the new LOTV sentiments and popped it on a sweet little memo pin tucked in with the flowers.

Our sponsor this time is Lawn Fawn with a stamp set and 6x6" paper pad of the winner's choice

My favourite non-card projects are gift bags or boxes, or in this case...baskets!
I made these a few weeks ago to give to my parents and my brother and his girlfriend for Easter.

I found a template for the basket on Pinterest but didn't print it out as it was pretty easy to see how to make each basket up, and I amended it a little to have one handle instead of two.
Then they just needed decorating with my fave flowers and swirly die cuts.

This is the other side...the 'back' if you will as the front has the tag on it, and the arrangement of flowers and die cuts is slightly different.

This is what they looked like once filled with a mixture of chocolate eggs. The bright colours of the eggs clash with the pastel papers for me but I can't imagine the recipients were bothered by that!

About Me

Hello and welcome to my blog!
I live in Gloucestershire with my lovely husband and work 4 days a week as a hospital pharmacist. When I'm not working I can usually be found in my craft room or in the garden.
I hope you enjoy seeing my creations :-)